Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Write Your @ss Off Weekend

Moonrat over at Editorial Ass writes an amazing blog. Every author and aspiring author out there should be reading it! She's got great information on all parts of the publishing process. And a rally monkey. Really. I heard about Write Your @ss Off Weekend through her great site.

JES over at Running After My Hat apparently sorta/kinda/maybe started the idea last year, and Moonrat suggested it for this past weekend. There's even a map at JES's site showing where all the crazy people enthusiastic writers live. Anyway, the aim was to write for 8 hours of one day this weekend.

Because I'm a crazy person enthusiastic writer, I signed myself up. And had a ball! It's fun knowing other people are squeezing the craziness and enthusiasm of NaNo into a weekend.

I succeeded in completing my 8 hours of writing, but it took me 2 days to do it. Not sure if it still counts, but I'm counting it anyway. I wrote 3 new chapters of my wip, revised the first 20 pages of the same wip, worked on the query, created an outline & wrote 2 blog posts! Fun stuff!

Did anyone else out there participate? If you did, did any of your 8 hours come in longer snatches than 30 minutes? If so, I'm very jealous!

On another note, I received a few more blog awards. I'll spread them out over the next few posts! Today, my thanks go to the wonderful Mason Canyon over at her great blog Thoughts in Progress. Mason has a great line up of guest bloggers, and she's always got something fun & interesting to say! Mason awarded me Lesa'sBald Faced Liar "Creative Writer" Award. :) For this one I'm to tell you 5 outrageous lies and 1 outrageous truth about myself. Hmmm....

1. I once spray painted myself completely blue in order to be a Smurf.2. I snuck candles to eat as a child - apparently a vitamin deficiency.3. I bought my entire wedding outfit for under $150.4. I once wrote a fan letter to Donny Osmond & have a signed photo to prove it.5. I have never owned a pet.6. I have never visited the United States.

Any guesses? Is it too easy? This was HARD!! So, in the spirit of sharing pain, I'd like to pass this along to:

62 comments:

Oh my heavens, you want me to do what? lol! I guess you don't know how bad of a liar I am. You'll soon find out. Thanks for the award! You are so sweet!

Now the question is when are you going to point out the truth from the lies? ;) I'm going to narrow it down by saying it's not 1,2 or 4... but I've always been bad at pop quizzes too. *grin* Eh, 3 or 6. Final answer. What? There are two there? Okay, I give up.

Simon - I certainly wouldn't want your demise on my conscience! I'm sure you've never told more than a tiny white fib, so I know how hard this will be on you. Try to tread gently so as not to endanger yourself :)

I can't say I'll be modest about this one, though. I'm a natural liar; I love it so much that I tell lies to myself as frequently as I can -- even in the bathroom! -- to hon the craft, as they say, heh.

Seriously now, I've seen Moonrat's challenge and it itched me to participate. But thank god I didn't, as I could barely write a paragraph this weekend!

You're crazy! Weekends are tough for me, too. I know they should be easier, since I have the kids all on my own during the week, but I pretty much reserve them for family time since we see so little of my husband during the week. So when do I write, you ask? Yeah, I pretty much don't, or I squeeze it in at 5 in the morning before (hopefully) they wake up!

I didn't read the others so as not to color my opinion. I'd say 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 are big fat lies. (It was a toss-up between 3 and 4 but I really couldn't believe the Donnie Osmond thing.) I'll check out Moonrat.

Congrats on your Awards, much deserved here! And kudos on your 8 hours of writing. What sounds great about that weekend is that it encouraged writers to get into that "zone" and really produce material!

I'll bite for the signed Donny OSmond picture. Most celebs actually do sign pictures at one stage or another of their career. Even Ringo Starr signed a picture for Marge Simpson and sent it back to her.

I hadn't heard ot his, but this is pretty much how I wrote both of my most recent manuscripts--like an absolute maniac. I think I'm too impatient to sit on an unfinished first draft for too long. I have to see it to its finish as quickly as humanly possible. I think the progress you made is wonderful, though, no matter how you did it!

I saw the challenge over at Moonrat's, but I'm doing a bit of research right now for my newest writing project and didn't think that was cohesive to getting much writing done. Sounds like you managed to get quite a bit done yourself though. I'm proud of you. Congratulations on the newest award. (Hugs)Indigo